Eric Holder in Albany?

A source tells me that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will be in Albany today for the noon swearing-in ceremony of new Court of Appeals Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam.

Abdus-Salaam, 61, was nominated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in April to fill a vacancy on the seven-member court — the state’s highest — following the death of Theodore Jones. She is the first African-American woman to sit on the court, and since 2009 has sat as a jurist on the state’s Appellate Division, first department.

Court of Appeals spokesman Gary Spencer would neither confirm nor deny Holder’s attendance. Cuomo is in Albany today, according to his public schedule, but is not listed as attending Abdus-Salaam’s ceremony. Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy is scheduled to attend.